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Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Mon Dec 9 00:08:44 CET 2013


On 2013-12-08 at 22:51:20 +0100, Jan Tosovsky wrote:

 > On 2013-12-08 Khaled Hosny wrote:
 > > On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 07:36:26PM +0100, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
 > > > On 2013-12-06 Khaled Hosny wrote:
 > > > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 11:01:44PM +0100, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
 > > > > >
 > > > > > typographic outputs comparable with Adobe InDesign, but with no
 > > > > > costs. While
 > > > >
 > > > > TeX predates InDesign by 30 years (not counting prototype 
 > > > > versions of TeX), so it is the other way around.
 > > >
 > > > In this particular case I meant availability of microtypography
 > > > features like protrusion/expansion.
 > > 
 > > Even that was introduced in PDFTeX which was released long before
 > > InDesign that were first released in 2002.
 > 
 > When I compare InDesign and LuaTeX, I compare the CURRENT feature
 > set. It may seem unfair, but who cares the history...
 > 
 > InDesign is currently de facto standard in professional typesetting
 > - it offers excellent typography, support for Unicode, Open Type
 > features, color management, produces PDFs compatible with various
 > standards - all this in a handy GUI.

Well, I recently had to repair broken PDF files created by InDesign.
LuaTeX doesn't create invalid PDF.

Regards,
  Reinhard
 
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